Giant Killing
GIANT KILLING
East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team. In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.
Giant Killing is a tv with 26 episodes, from Spring 2010, produced by Studio DEEN, rated 7.3/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team. In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.
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Tags
- Football — Centers around the sport of football (known in the USA as "soccer").
- Primarily Adult Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
- Seinen — Target demographic is adult males.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Work — Centers around the activities of a certain occupation.
- Primarily Male Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of male characters.
- Achronological Order — Chapters or episodes do not occur in chronological order.